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China’s food safety watchdog has launched an investigation into local juice makers after a media report said they used rotten fruit to make their products. The probe includes two branches of the country’s sector leader, China Huiyuan Juice Group Ltd. Farmers in several Chinese provinces sold rotten fruit to distributors, which wasContinue Reading

As part of his project to publish the most comprehensive book ever produced for general readers on the world’s tropical fruits, botanist Rolf Blancke has written a five-part series for www.freshfruitportal.com on his exotic fruit experiences. In this final instalment, he discusses some interesting discoveries in the Penang Tropical Fruit Farm andContinue Reading

Australia’s pineapple industry could be crippled and almost half of Queensland’s crops wiped out by exotic diseases, the state’s Agriculture Department has warned. These fears are not confined to the pineapple industry: Tasmania’s farmers have made similar warnings about that state’s lucrative potato trade and Australian ginger growers have accusedContinue Reading

Guava tree is local fruit of South Americans and Caribbean countries and it was brought to Asian countries by Portuguese in the 17th century. Guava is the member of family Myrtaceae, this plant has higher adaptability as well as productivity. This plant can produce high yield and good quality fruitContinue Reading

The celebrated 1930s central market in São Paulo is a huge grid of food stalls where locals to Brazil’s largest city come daily to shop and eat. Sellers in the fruit section seduce you with juicy slivers of fragrant guavas, papayas and Brazilian citrus fruits, and juice bars offer exoticContinue Reading

While the debate rages on about the pros and cons of genetically modified crops, a Hawai`i research facility is working on developing a ringspot virus-resistant papaya – the “old-fashioned” way. The Oahu-based Hawaii Agriculture Research Center has received a federal grant to assist in cross-breeding a hybrid that would beContinue Reading

Produce exports to Australia and New Zealand are sluggish but show signs of gradually improving.   This is the comment from Michael Brown, the CEO of the produce farmers’ co-operative, Nature’s Way Co-operative.   “For example, some of our biggest papaya producers were badly hit by the floods in 2012Continue Reading

First launched in Brisbane’s Post Office Square in June, more Smart Banana vending machines have since been placed at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and the Roma Street Transit Centre. MacKays Produce Solutions marketing spokesman Mike Evans said he had helped design the concept alongside North Queensland (Tully) banana farmers DanielContinue Reading

A researcher at the National Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP) Mirafuentes Felipe Hernandez, adding that the new hybrid is already assessed in Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco and Michoacán.   He explained that to create a new genotivo seven selfings required from parents to achieve homogenization “and once so, itContinue Reading